PROFESSIONAL RESOURCES FOR REVIEWS AND RECOMMENDATIONS OF HI/LO BOOKS




Young Adult Library Services Association. (2010). 2010 Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers.

http://teensreadtoo.com/2010QuickPicks.html
  • This links you to a portion of the teensreadtoo website. In addition to providing book reviews (although they are not necessarily by professionals), this site has other information such as the YALSA Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers list. This gets you the list of books and then you may take that list to look for reviews.

http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/yalsa/yalsa.cfm
  • This is the actual site for the Young Adult Library Services Association. They are a part of the American Library Association.

Title Wave (Follett Library Resources)

  • This site lets you look up books, get reviews, pricing, save your "wants", and so on.

School Library Journal

  • Reliable reviews and recommendations

www.amazon.com

  • Why is this good? After the book description if the book has reviews from reputable review sources such as Booklist, School Library Journal and so on, they are all there in one spot.